CFP: &quot;Lords of Wine and Oil&quot;: Community and Conviviality in the work of Robert Herrick and his contemporaries (UK) (1/

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Ruth Connolly

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ruth.connolly@newcastle.ac.uk

"Lords of Wine and Oil": Community and Conviviality in the work ofRobert Herrick and his contemporaries.

This conference comes halfway through the process of editing TheComplete Poetry of Robert Herrick (Oxford UP, 2010) and will be held inJuly 2008 at Buckfast Abbey, near Herrick's vicarage of Dean Prior, inDevon. The conference will focus on the part played by Community,Conviviality and Friendship not only in Herrick's work, but in all formsof literary discourse of the early Stuart period (c.1600-c.1650).Discussions of writers who, due to rank, gender or conviction, cannotenter or are critical of certain communities or communal identities arealso welcome.Topics will include (but are not limited to):* studies of individual clubs, coteries or salons and theirliterary output* studies of individual writers working within such groups* the formation, entrance criteria and exclusionary practices ofthese groups* the treatment and significance of friendship* composition and circulation of manuscript verse miscellanies* the involvement of coteries and salons with wider political andsocial events* the exploration or discussion by writers of communal identities* competition and/or collaboration between writers* relationships between writers, their patrons and/or theirpublics* community, sociability and genre, including the country housepoem and non-literary genres such as letters and sermons* conflicts within and between communities* the socio-cultural implications of print publication forliterary communities* verse exchanges, dedicatory poems and prefaces in print andmanuscript* relationship between orality, manuscript and print

Please send title and abstract of no more than 300 words by January 18th2008 to Dr Ruth Connolly, School of English, Newcastle University,Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom or email:ruth.connolly_at_ncl.ac.uk